"Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers" by Mary Roach

I really wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading Stiff. What I ended up with was one of the most entertaining, informative and respectful (yet humorous) books on the subject of what could happen to your body once you die. It’s been a few years since I first read Stiff and I’ve recommended it to almost everyone I know.

Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach’s Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science.

Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigation for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre

If you enjoyed Stiff then I can also recommend its companion book Spook